by John Simpson, Jennifer Speake · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192800022
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«The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs» is the reference dictionary on English proverbs by John Simpson and Jennifer Speake, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (330 pages, in English).
Reference work bringing together over a thousand widely used English proverbs, with quotations documenting their appearance in written texts and a thematic index for locating sayings on specific subjects. Includes both classic proverbs and modern expressions from the fields of computing, economics and entertainment.
Second edition of this work. The book includes a bibliography and subject index. Originally published in 1993 by Oxford Paperbacks.
Suitable for students of English, writers, translators and any reader interested in language, popular culture and the English oral tradition.
John Cody Fidler-Simpson is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News. He holds dual British-Irish citizenship. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.
